cyanuric
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cyanuric
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The researchers winnowed down the suspects to bacteria called Klebsiella and found that this microbe on its own processed melamine into cyanuric acid and other byproducts.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
"It only takes a small amount of cyanuric acid to trigger the stone formation and kidney toxicity," says Wei Jia, a pharmacologist from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
They wondered if bacteria had converted some melamine to cyanuric acid.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
But cyanuric acid was not in the infant formula, so it was initially unclear why kidney stones formed in the children.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 13, 2013
Two years later, in 1830, Wöhler published, jointly with Liebig, the results of a research on cyanic and cyanuric acid and on urea.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
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